What is collective benefits?

A collective benefit often benefits more than one person at the cost of an individual acting to obtain the benefit.¹ It is common that an individual may benefit from a collective act without contributing to it.² Collective benefits can non-competitive and inclusive if the availability of the benefit does not diminish from the use of one actor.³ An example of this type of collective benefit is social capital.⁴ However, they can also be exclusive if the benefit is not available to all networks of relation, such as a pure public good.⁵

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